Kleenex has now recalled their "Luxury Foam Hand Sanitizer" because they've found it to be full of the bacterium Burkholderia cepacia. B. cepacia normally lives in the soil but can become associated with people. Healthy people are not bothered by B. cepacia, but people with compromised immune systems can fall prey to its darker side.

The real issue here is the irony of a hand sanitizer being full of bacteria, one of the very "unsanitary" things it is supposed to be killing. Would it not b... Continue reading ...